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Best Picture
 FANNY - Mansfield, Warner Bros. Produced by Joshua Logan
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE - Foreman, Columbia. Produced by Carl Foreman
THE HUSTLER - Rossen, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Robert Rossen
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG - Kramer, UA. Produced by Stanley Kramer
 WEST SIDE STORY (Won 10 Awards + 1 Honorary Award; tied for most Awards) - Mirisch-B & P Enterprises, UA. Produced by Robert Wise
Actor
Charles Boyer in FANNY
Paul Newman in THE HUSTLER
Maximilian Schell in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Spencer Tracy in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Stuart Whitman in THE MARK
Actress
Audrey Hepburn in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Piper Laurie in THE HUSTLER
Sophia Loren in LA CIOCIARA (TWO WOMEN)
Geraldine Page in SUMMER AND SMOKE
Natalie Wood in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
Supporting Actor
George Chakiris in WEST SIDE STORY
Montgomery Clift in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Peter Falk in POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES
Jackie Gleason in THE HUSTLER
George C. Scott in THE HUSTLER
Supporting Actress
Fay Bainter in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Judy Garland in JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Lotte Lenya in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE
Una Merkel in SUMMER AND SMOKE
Rita Moreno in WEST SIDE STORY
Director
Federico Fellini for LA DOLCE VITA
Stanley Kramer for JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Robert Rossen for THE HUSTLER
J. Lee Thompson - THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins for WEST SIDE STORY
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
Valentin Yoshov & Grigori Chukhrai - BALLADA O SOLDATE (BALLAD OF A SOLDIER)
Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri & Indro Montanelli - IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE (GENERAL DELLA ROVERE)
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano & Brunello Rondi - LA DOLCE VITA
Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning - LOVER COME BACK
William Inge - SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium)
George Axelrod - BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Carl Foreman - THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen - THE HUSTLER
Abby Mann - JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Ernest Lehman - WEST SIDE STORY
Foreign Language Film
HARRY OG KAMMERTJENEREN (HARRY AND THE BUTLER, Denmark)
EIEN NO HITO (IMMORTAL LOVE, Japan)
ÁNIMAS TRUJANO: EL HOMBRE IMPORTANTE (THE IMPORTANT MAN, Mexico)
PLÁCIDO (Spain)
SÅSOM I EN SPEGEL (THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, Sweden)
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color)
Hal Pereira & Roland Anderson - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Ray Moyer - Set Decoration BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Veniero Colasanti - Art Direction, John Moore - Set Decoration EL CID
Alexander Golitzen & Joseph C. Wright - Art Direction, Howard Bristol - Set Decoration FLOWER DRUM SONG
Hal Pereira & Walter H. Tyler - Art Direction, Sam Comer & Arthur Krams - Set Decoration SUMMER AND SMOKE
Boris Leven - Art Direction, Victor Gangelin - Set Decoration WEST SIDE STORY
Art Direction/Set Decoration (Black and White)
Carroll Clark - Art Direction, Emile Kuri & Hal Gausman - Set Decoration THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR
Fernando Carrere - Art Direction, Edward G. Boyle - Set Decoration Edward G. Boyle- THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Harry Horner - Art Direction, Gene Callahan - Set Decoration THE HUSTLER
Rudolph Sternad - Art Direction, George Milo - Set Decoration JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Piero Gherardi - Art Direction LA DOLCE VITA
Cinematography (Color)
Jack Cardiff - FANNY
Russell Metty - FLOWER DRUM SONG
Harry Stradling - A MAJORITY OF ONE
Charles B. Lang - ONE-EYED JACKS
Daniel L. Fapp - WEST SIDE STORY
Cinematography (Black and White)
Edward Colman - THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR
Franz Planer - THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Eugen Schüfftan - THE HUSTLER
Ernest Laszlo - JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Daniel L. Fapp - ONE, TWO, THREE
Costume Design (Color)
Bill Thomas - BABES IN TOYLAND
Jean Louis - BACK STREET
Irene Sharaff - FLOWER DRUM SONG
Edith Head & Walter Plunkett - POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES
Irene Sharaff - WEST SIDE STORY
Costume Design (Black and White)
Piero Gherardi - LA DOLCE VITA
Dorothy Jeakins - THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Howard Shoup - CLAUDELLE INGLISH
Jean Louis - JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Yoshiro Muraki - YOJIMBO
Documentary (Features)
LA GRANDE OLIMPIADE (OLYMPIC GAMES 1960)
Arthur Cohn & Rene Lafuite - Producers LE CIEL ET LA BOUE (THE SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELOW)
Documentary (Shorts)
U.S. Air Force - Producer BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER
Jim O'Connor & Tom Hayes - Producers CRADLE OF GENIUS
KAHL
Benedetto Benedetti - Producer THE MAN IN GRAY
Frank P. Bibas - Producer PROJECT HOPE
Film Editing
William H. Reynolds - FANNY
Alan Osbiston - THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Frederic Knudtson - JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Philip W. Anderson - THE PARENT TRAP
Thomas Stanford - WEST SIDE STORY
Music: Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Henry Mancini - BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Miklos Rozsa - EL CID
Morris Stoloff & Harry Sukman - FANNY
Dimitri Tiomkin - THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Elmer Bernstein - SUMMER AND SMOKE
Music: Scoring of a Musical Picture
George Bruns - BABES IN TOYLAND
Alfred Newman & Ken Darby - FLOWER DRUM SONG
Dmitri Shostakovich - KHOVANSHCHINA
Duke Ellington - PARIS BLUES
Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin & Irwin Kostal - WEST SIDE STORY
Music: Song
Henry Mancini - Music, Mack David - Lyrics BACHELOR IN PARADISE "Bachelor in Paradise"
Miklos Rozsa - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics EL CID "Love Theme from El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)"
Henry Mancini - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S "Moon River" 
Jimmy Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES "Pocketful of Miracles"
Dimitri Tiomkin - Music, Ned Washington - Lyrics TOWN WITHOUT PITY "Town Without Pity"
Short Subjects (Cartoons)
Walt Disney - Producer AQUAMANIA
Chuck Jones - Producer BEEP PREPARED
Zagreb Film - ERSATZ
Chuck Jones - Producer NELLY'S FOLLY
Friz Freleng - Producer PIED PIPER OF GUADALUPE
Short Subjects (Live Action Subjects)
Cine Documents - BALLON VOLÉ (PLAY BALL!)
Dr. John D. Jennings - Producer THE FACE OF JESUS
Robert McCarty - Producer/Director ROOFTOPS OF NEW YORK (McCarty-Rush-Gaffney)
Templar/Schoenfeld - SEAWARDS THE GREAT SHIPS
Colin Low and Tom Daly - Producers (unnamed with nomination) VERY NICE, VERY NICE (NFB Canada)
Sound
Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Waldon O. Watson (Revue Studio Sound Department) FLOWER DRUM SONG
John Cox (Shepperton Studio Sound Department) THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Robert O. Cook (Walt Disney Studio Sound Department) THE PARENT TRAP
Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Department) & Gordon E. Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) WEST SIDE STORY
Special Effects
Robert A. Mattey & Eustace Lycett - Special Effects (Visual) THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR
Bill Warrington - Special Effects (Visual), Vivian C. Greenham - Special Effects (Audible) THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1961.
Class II (Plaque):
 Sylvania Electric Products Inc. - For the development of a hand held high-power photographic lighting unit known as the Sun Gun Professional.
James Dale, S. Wilson, H. E. Rice, John Rude, Laurie Atkin, Wadsworth E. Pohl & H. Peasgood (Technicolor Corporation) - For a process of automatic selective printing.
20th Century-Fox Research Department, Earl I. Sponable, Herbert E. Bragg (Deluxe Laboratories Inc.), F. D. Leslie, R. D. Whitmore, A. A. Alden, Endel Pool & James B. Gordon - For a system of decompressing and recomposing CinemaScope pictures for conventional aspect ratios.
Class III (Citation):
 Hurletron Inc.-Electrical Eye Equipment Division - For an automatic light changing system for motion picture printers.
Wadsworth E. Pohl (Technicolor Corporation) - For an integrated sound and picture transfer process.
Honorary and Other Awards
William L. Hendricks - For his outstanding patriotic service in the conception, writing and production of the Marine Corps films, A FORCE IN READINESS, which has brought honor to the Academy and the motion picture industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
Fred L. Metzler - For his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winner presented a Statuette.
Jerome Robbins - For his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Stanley Kramer
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
George Seaton
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FIRSTS
· Two co-directors win Best Director Award.
· Sophia Loren is the first actor to win an Award for a performance in a foreign language.
· Rita Moreno is listed in The Guinness Book of World Records for being the first performer to win an Oscar®, a Tony®, an Emmy®, and a Grammy®.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Misfits, La Dolce vita
Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - La Dolce vita, Burt Lancaster - Judgment at Nuremberg
Supporting Actor: Warren Beatty - Splendor in the Grass
Supporting Actress: Marlene Dietrich - Judgment at Nuremberg
Song: "Can't Help Falling in Love," "Let's Twist Again"
Foreign Film: Last Year at Marienbad (France), La Notte (Italy)
ROLE REVERSALS
The Mirisch Brothers, exec producers of West Side Story, toyed with the idea of casting Elvis Presley as the leader of the Jets, with his followers played by Fabian, Frankie Avalon and Paul Anka. Jerome Robbins convinced them otherwise.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Warren Beatty notified the Academy that he did not wish to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor (preferring Best Actor instead), but the Academy said it was too late. Fortunately, he was not nominated.
· Beatty and co-star Natalie Wood were regulars in the gossip columns after the release of Splendor in the Grass.
· Most of the singing voices in West Side Story were dubbed.
· Co-director Robert Wise thought Jerome Robbins spent too much time on the choreography and told Robbins to jeté off the set after 2-½ months of filming. Robbins's assistants helped Wise wrap up the film.
· George C. Scott asked the Academy to remove his name for nominee as Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler, saying, "[It's] like a weird beauty or personality contest. I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." The Academy responded by saying it was Scott's performance that was being nominated, not Scott himself.
· Before her nomination, Rita Moreno had been known in the press as "The Cheetah," "The Chile Pepper" and "The Puerto Rico Pepper Pot." She immediately got to work on her public image.
· Luella Parson thought it ridiculous that stars like Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift were nominated for Supporting roles and likened the situation to "a bank president reducing himself to title of bookkeeper in order to get a coffee break." Sheila Graham thought a new category should be instituted for "Best Star Cameo."
· Word was getting back to Hollywood from the set of Cleopatra that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were making like Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini a dozen years earlier. The Academy promptly asked Liz to present the Best Actor Award, but she declined.
· On the eve of the ceremonies, the Los Angeles Herald- Examiner ran a cartoon of the Oscar statuette stamped with the labels, "Emphasis on Sex and Adult Themes," "Rising Overseas Production" and "Liz's Romantic Antics." The caption read, "Somewhat Tarnished."
· On Awards night, nominee Audrey Hepburn, who had flown in from Switzerland to be at the ceremonies, was sick in bed with a sore throat at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "It was a long way to come to watch a television show," she moaned. "And I brought a pretty dress."
· Down the hall was Supporting Actress nominee Judy Garland. She said her son, Joey Luft, whose entrance into the world had precluded his mother's attendance at the 1954 Awards, was down with an earache and she thought she should be with him.
· For the first time, pickets used the media spotlight of the Awards to trumpet their causes. A group calling itself the Hollywood Race Relations Bureau marched outside the Auditorium with placards reading "Film Equality for Negroes" and "All Negroes Want a Break." Twelve protestors were taken into custody for disturbing the peace.
· After the presentation of the B&W Cinematography Award, a man suddenly appeared at the podium. "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the world's greatest gatecrasher and I just came here to present Bob Hope with his 1938 trophy," he announced, identifying himself as "Stan Berman." Berman gave presenters Vince Edwards and Shelley Winters a little trophy and said, "This is for Bob." Winters laughed through his whole spiel and assured him, "We'll give it to him." When Hope returned after the Color Award was given, he quipped, "Who needs Price, Waterhouse? All we need is a doorman."
· As co-directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins accepted their Best Director Awards, neither man mentioned or thanked the other.
· As Burt Lancaster read the names of the Best Actress nominees, he forgot to mention Sophia Loren and the audience cried out when he went for the envelope. "I was saving it," Lancaster apologized. "And Sophia Loren for Two Women. And the winner is... Sophia Loren for Two Women."
· Loren was at home in Rome. She'd gone to bed at around 6 a.m.; Cary Grant called her 45 minutes later with the news that she'd won.
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